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Never Wager with a Wallflower by Virginia Heath
5.0
✨I do love nothing in the world so well as you✨
I did NOT expect to be so emotional at the ending of this series but of course I am!! I love these characters and their chaotic blended/found family so much it hurts. Virginia Heath has such a special way of merging screwball comedy with deeply emotional romance. Like the rest of the series, Never Wager With A Wallflower was no exception.
There were times while reading this book where I really couldn’t contain my laughter. I was listening to the audiobook incognito with a hidden AirPod and I had to turn my laughs into a coughing fit!! I thought that only happened in romance novels! But after the laughs, at its heart, the romance was so touching. Venus and Gal were definitely a long time coming. They felt inevitable.
Gal was down so bad for Venus, poor boy. Whenever a character realizes that they’re incredibly lonely (it’s normally a surprise to them or the other MC), I lose my mind. It’s always so real and sad but also hopeful because it’s romance and they won’t always be alone!! Gal also realized he had a place in their family. That he had people to spend Christmas with. That he had people to care for him.
As for the audiobook, I’ll admit I was apprehensive about it being dual narrated. And while I think it worked pretty well, I’ll never escape a dual narrated audiobook without having a favorite narrator and mourning the loss of a whole book of their narration. Sasha Higgins was a good choice, but her American accent wasn’t my favorite. Sebastian Brown on the other hand was perfection. I wanted him to narrate the sex scene because!!!! That man has such a delicious voice, oh my.
Overall, I’ll be reading whatever Virginia Heath comes out with next. She’s such a unique voice in current histroms, and I’m really happy with how she approached each relationship in the series. While you could read this book without others in the series, I definitely recommend reading the series in order to feel the most feels.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌶️🌶️/5
Thanks so much to the publisher for an eARC via NetGalley and PRHaudio for an ALC. All opinions are honest and my own.
I did NOT expect to be so emotional at the ending of this series but of course I am!! I love these characters and their chaotic blended/found family so much it hurts. Virginia Heath has such a special way of merging screwball comedy with deeply emotional romance. Like the rest of the series, Never Wager With A Wallflower was no exception.
There were times while reading this book where I really couldn’t contain my laughter. I was listening to the audiobook incognito with a hidden AirPod and I had to turn my laughs into a coughing fit!! I thought that only happened in romance novels! But after the laughs, at its heart, the romance was so touching. Venus and Gal were definitely a long time coming. They felt inevitable.
Gal was down so bad for Venus, poor boy. Whenever a character realizes that they’re incredibly lonely (it’s normally a surprise to them or the other MC), I lose my mind. It’s always so real and sad but also hopeful because it’s romance and they won’t always be alone!! Gal also realized he had a place in their family. That he had people to spend Christmas with. That he had people to care for him.
As for the audiobook, I’ll admit I was apprehensive about it being dual narrated. And while I think it worked pretty well, I’ll never escape a dual narrated audiobook without having a favorite narrator and mourning the loss of a whole book of their narration. Sasha Higgins was a good choice, but her American accent wasn’t my favorite. Sebastian Brown on the other hand was perfection. I wanted him to narrate the sex scene because!!!! That man has such a delicious voice, oh my.
Overall, I’ll be reading whatever Virginia Heath comes out with next. She’s such a unique voice in current histroms, and I’m really happy with how she approached each relationship in the series. While you could read this book without others in the series, I definitely recommend reading the series in order to feel the most feels.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌶️🌶️/5
Thanks so much to the publisher for an eARC via NetGalley and PRHaudio for an ALC. All opinions are honest and my own.